Jonathan Shapiro

The high-profile stockpicker is the eye disorder treatment hopeful’s biggest shareholder. Ahead of the results of a crucial clinical trial, shorts are rising.

The increasing exposure of the biggest retirement savings investors to US sharemarkets has driven the biggest fall in the value of their assets in nine months.

The attraction of this rapidly rising sector to investors of all sizes is the promise of security and consistently high returns.

The 139-year-old group had proposed the sale to the private equity giant more than a year ago. It will now try to sell the wealth management unit separately.

ASIC is eyeing the future of investing and hellbent on keeping public and private markets on a level regulatory playing field.

The Reserve Bank cut the cash rate, but the extent to which it tempered enthusiasm for more reductions brings into question why the board chose to move at all.

Perpetual’s response to reports of a revived deal to sell its trust and wealth units to KKR has left shareholders in the dark.

The financial market has predictive powers that should be respected. But there may be hidden factors influencing the odds of an RBA rate cut this week.

Peter Rutter and his team are back in Australia, and they are trying to solve the investing question of our time: data centres or software?

The company will follow JPMorgan, Citi and Bank of America out of the Net Zero Banking Alliance after the return of Donald Trump to the White House.